Post by etypephil on May 28, 2018 4:07:15 GMT

Thanks to Steve for organising the event, it must have occupied a lot of his time over the past few months. Having a four hour round trip and a dog crossing his legs at home, we were unable to stay for the whole day, but did have the time for a few pleasant passings of time, and some photos.

I am sure that Steve will post photos, so not wishing to steal his thunder, I'll confine mine to my personal "Car of the day":

Unfortunately, I didn't get a chance to speak to the owner / builder; all I can say is that this appears to be a well thought out and executed conversion involving a Mk2 shell and a 4.0 supercharged V8. If the owner reads this, or indeed anyone with further knowledge of the build, or specification, I for one would enjoy reading about it.

Britain is an Idiocracy;- we have government of idiots, by idiots, for idiots.

Post by stevesheldon on May 28, 2018 18:12:30 GMT

Hi Guys, I can't believe this happened at our event BUT there was a Jaguar that was damaged in the Pease Pottage Services and as event organiser (gulp :-) ) the footage of the event has been forwarded to me.. if your Jaguar was damaged at Pease Pottage Services on Sundy 28th May at our event please drop me a line at [email protected] and I will forward the footage onto you so you can progress this as you wish.

Post by stevesheldon on May 28, 2018 20:28:00 GMT

OK, initial chats with Grant Ford are completed, I am up to date with event email, and I am just about to start uploading the event photos to the photo section we have on our Facebook page - if honest I am now unlikely to get as far as my event synopsis tonight - sorry to those of you awaiting it. However the pics are going up now!! Please enjoy and email me any pics you may have that you are happy fot me to use.. especially of the award presentations, prize winners, and the group shots as I have none of them currently :-( Please enjoy the pics I have so far for you - and thankyou once again for making the day possible :-)

Post by etypephil on May 30, 2018 11:38:38 GMT

Hi Guys, I can't believe this happened at our event BUT there was a Jaguar that was damaged in the Pease Pottage Services and as event organiser (gulp :-) ) the footage of the event has been forwarded to me.. if your Jaguar was damaged at Pease Pottage Services on Sundy 28th May at our event please drop me a line at [email protected] and I will forward the footage onto you so you can progress this as you wish.

Any truth in the rumour that it was Ian D's car?

Britain is an Idiocracy;- we have government of idiots, by idiots, for idiots.

Post by stevesheldon on Jun 4, 2018 7:34:15 GMT

Ok I am just getting back up to speed and will be updating things as I go over the next few days - after all the time through the year organising our event it was decided I should have some family time this half term :-)

If anyone has any photos from the event they are happy to share could you please email them across to me.. I am especially missing photos of the group gathering at 11am and of the awards/prizes and am under some pressure to get a group shot to Grant for our event article.

Post by stevesheldon on Jun 4, 2018 8:38:09 GMT

Our fifth anniversary event was set to be our largest to-date, and with a new layout. The night before our event Soraya from DesignCats was onsite at Denbies organising the layout of our field, calling me to let me know that Denbies had a large marque on the left hand side of the field so we needed to move our event further to the right. Through Saturday we had a mixture of last minute signups, and cancellations due to the threat of bad weather.

On the day itself I was up at 6am getting the last things organised and packed - my wife did not think it would all fit in the S-Type but it did (just).. I made it to Pease Pottage Services for 8am and with some help from event attendees that had arrived early managed to get everything into our event registration room there. There was a number of items for the Welcome Packs that had turned up late and were added as we handed out the Welcome Packs to people signing up for the day.

The room was packed, but the numbers were definitely down this year with the weather putting people off joining us for the day.Once everyone was settled with their discounted Costa coffees and their welcome packs we ran through the plans for the day which included a rolling start to the convoy (not needed in the end as the car boot sale that usually runs next door had been cancelled due to the weather), a new layout by year of Jaguar, additional awards, and a little about our event sponsors.

After the talk everyone headed off - noting that we had just one convoy route this year after the confusion last year with an advanced and standard route. Tony from Harwoods, and myself were at the tail end of the convoy, as I had to clear everything up at Pease Pottage prior to our leaving. The weather was holding, and the roads were clear giving us a good run to our main event venue at Denbies. On arrival at Denbies everyone parked in roughly year order around three sides of a main presentation area, with trade stands by PVD Approved, Harwoods Jaguar, Bub Wedding Cars, Leather Repair Centre, Simply Performance, Julian Ferarro Jaguars, & DesignCats on the fourth side, nearest the Denbies buildings.

The sun had started to come out by now, and people took the opportunity to head into Denbies for a discounted breakfast deal.Just after 11am everyone was assembled, trade and attendees, for a group shot - the first one in three years! I am desperate for anyones shots of this please (email any across to me at [email protected]) as Grant Ford, attending in his official role as journalist for CMM, needs this for our event article.

Through the day we had talks by Bert from PVD approved, and Michael & Richard from Robornes, teaching attendees the tricks of the trade, and how to look after your Jaguar. I had very positive feedback from a number of attendees who were already knowledgable that they had genuinely learnt new things from these very knowledgable guys - huge thank go out to them for this.

We moved onto the awards for a number of classes and had some surprise results with the individual Jaguars chosen showing that the mix of judges this year made quite a change to things. The most accoladed Jaguar there was the one E-Type that made it - we had anticipated three or four before the weather forecast hit, but it won both the Peoples Choice and the new Julian Ferarro E-Type award!!

Our prize draw had everything from a free meal out at the Kennels, Goodwood, to bespoke luggage, wine tasting experiences, wash sets, scale models, vouchers, and even t-shirts to name just a few - a massive thankyou goes out to our event sponsors for this. Please note I need any photos of the prize/award presentations too please..

Towards the end of the day we had some last minute arrivals, which was great to see, and hopefully they enjoyed the part of the day they managed to make it to.

We had in the region of 60 vehicles on the day itself spanning 1960's through to 2018 which was great, and I am sure if the weather forecast had been better we would have made around 110 on the day - but there is always next year :-)

My memory is not perfect - so please feel free to chip in with any details I have missed out.

Most importantly I am still collecting photos of our event - could you please email any pictures or videos that you are happy to share across to me as there is quite a bit of event coverage currently missing.

I hope everyone had a great time on the day, and don't forget to sign up for our next event coming up in 2019 which will be our eighth event to-date!

Post by stevesheldon on Jun 4, 2018 9:34:04 GMT

Please note all the images I have so far from our event are in our 2018 photo album at our event Facebook page www.facebook.com/JaguarForumsUK - if you have any photos from our event please let me know I would love to be able to add them to our album

Post by etypephil on Jun 8, 2018 3:44:46 GMT

I beg to differ; this is what fvckface comes up with when I click on the provided link:

"Required: Review Your Data Settings

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Please take a few minutes to review these updates and make choices about some specific data settings.Here's what we'll have you review:How we use personal data from advertisers, app developers and publishers to show you relevant adsAn option to turn on face recognitionOur updated Terms, Data Policy and Cookies Policy

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and allows me to go no further without "getting started", which leads to another form, and yet another.

Perhaps it recognises that your device is associated with an account, irrespective of whether you are logged in or not.

Post by stevesheldon on Jun 8, 2018 7:33:07 GMT

I don't know why you are having problems *but* I do have a solution for you.. I have popped the photos onto my OneDrive account and you can access them there now too - you need to follow this link: 1drv.ms/f/s!Ao-7HJVAHqvXmgu2Yx1oDFGnZ7Uc

So now you can access them in some of the forum threads our event has, it's Facebook page, it's Facebook album, or via OneDrive :-)

I am still chasing one last photographer that was onsite for his photo's, and am waiting on Grant Ford to let me know if our article went in OK despite the issues with getting hold of photos in time, but I will be effectively signing off on the synopsis and photos today.

Next week I will be making contact with our event sponsors for feedback on how things went and re-signing as many as I can for us.

Then the following week keep an eye on our event Twitter feed, & Instagram for the start of our 2019 event promotion :-)

Post by stevesheldon on Jun 11, 2018 9:08:16 GMT

Hi Guys,

I have just uploaded some additional images from the day supplied by Carole Chitticks, and Fred & Daggie, that they have been kind enough to share with us. I have updated the album at our event Facebook page, and on my OneDrive account so these additional images should be available to you all as of now :-)

If anyone else has any photos please send them in to me at [email protected] and I would love to add them to our photos of the day.

Meanwhile please keep an eye on the new thread for our 2019 event as I will be updating it with the details of our sponsors as I go through the week and sign / re sign some incredible sponsors up with us.

Post by stevesheldon on Jun 15, 2018 9:50:25 GMT

OK guys,

I am officially signing off this years JaguarForums Convoy & Meet event as of today.

An absolutely massive thankyou goes out to everyone who was involved with our event and managed to make it despite the threatened storms and floods - without you all we would not have the incrtedible annual event that we have :-)

If any further images make it to me I will pop them up on our Facebook album and my OneDrive account so it may be worth keeping an eye on them.

I have asked CMM if we can have a link to any article about our 2018 event, or a pdf of the article, and am in progress with signing, and re-signing sponsors for our 2019 event currently.

Our 2019 event will have more of everything - so please consider signing up on one of our forum threads, or Facebook page - I can promise you a great Jaguar day out, and the biggest free event we have ever managed :-)

Don't forget you can follow our annual event on Twitter @jfbrightonmeets #MayJagMeet, friend it at it's Facebook page at www.facebook.com/JaguarForumsUK, follow it on Instagram at JaguarForumsUK, or follow it's forum threads at JaguarForums.com, JaguarForum.com and JagChat.net

A huge thankyou again to everyone, trade, attendees, and sponsors for making our 2018 event possible - and I look forward to seeing you all next year.

Post by stevesheldon on Jun 29, 2018 7:27:33 GMT

Just to let you guys know.. Classic Motor Monthly will be publishing a one page spread about our event next month, and they have been kind enough to release it to us ahead of publication. Please feel free to read it here: 1drv.ms/b/s!Ao-7HJVAHqvXm0tmcSGbdDGj6Neh